My throat is sore

J. Wilbye

My throat is sore my voice is hoarse with skriking,

My rests are sighs, deep from the heart-root fetched.

My song runs all on sharps, and with oft striking

Time on my breats, I I shrink with hands out-stretched.

Thus still and still I sing, and ne'er am linning,

For still the close points to my first beginning.